If you are sitting on a bar stool.....

while watching movies, LCD/Plasma TV mounted on top of the fireplace mantle should be fine. However, if you are sitting on a sofa then you have to consider and address the neck strain issues. Here is a guideline that will mitigate the neck strain issue while watching TV. Vertical angle of view: Where this is not possible, the SMPTE guideline suggests that the maximum vertical angle measured at the seated eye height from the front row center seat to the topmost part of the TV screen of projected image, should not exceed 35 degrees.

Of course YMMV.

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Topic - Putting the Kuro in the family room, above the mantle: the only place for - tinear 18:00:51 06/02/10 (14)

I have rears in ceiling - Daryl Zero 14:10:50 06/05/10 (5)

I am trying NOT to picture this. :-) (NT) - Kal Rubinson 11:36:09 06/07/10 (4)

My MLs are not stats, so the mix is fine nt - Daryl Zero 12:28:21 06/10/10 (1)

We know, We know. nt - Kal Rubinson 15:59:03 06/10/10 (0)

Less distracting than having rears on walls - cfraser 15:44:27 06/07/10 (0)

It has a certain... surrealistic appeal. nt - SF tech 13:28:08 06/07/10 (0)

Thanks! nt - tinear 16:26:27 06/03/10 (0)

Be sure to wire up the RIGHT speakers too nt - Brian A 16:18:04 06/03/10 (0)

kuro above the mantle is sacrilege - barryb 13:26:28 06/03/10 (0)

If you are sitting on a bar stool..... - kootenay 10:42:01 06/03/10 (0)

In ceiling speakers can work fine. - grantv 09:47:59 06/03/10 (0)

RE: Putting the Kuro in the family room, above the mantle: the only place for - Crimson 19:25:35 06/02/10 (2)

RE: Putting the Kuro in the family room, above the mantle: the only place for - grantv 09:41:11 06/03/10 (1)

RE: Putting the Kuro in the family room, above the mantle: the only place for - Rod H. 15:01:43 06/17/10 (0)

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If you are sitting on a bar stool..... - kootenay 10:42:01 06/03/10 (0)

If you are sitting on a bar stool.....

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